Foot-rest chair.



A. K; OERISTIANSEN.

FOOT REST CHAIR.

APPLIGATION FILED NOV. 5, 1909.

Patented June 14, 1910.

w m E W W SA ES T EPIC FOOT-REST CHAIR.

Application filed November 5, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Axnr. K. CHRISTIAN- snN, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Greenfield, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Foot-Rest Chairs, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in foot rest attachments for chairs, and has for its object to provide appliances to constitute a foot or leg rest and a support therefor whereby the rest may have its position more or less far forward of the chair as desired, or a rearwardly disposed relation at or within the forward portion of the chair or close thereto, and whereby the foot rest may be swung from a substantially level position downwardly and forwardly at any angle as best suits the comfort of the person sitting or reclining in the chair.

The invention consists in the combination or arrangement of parts. and the construction of certain of the parts substantially as hereinafter described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and set forth in the claims.

In the drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rocking chair having the foot rest attachments thereon as more or less forwardly extended with the rest in a forwardly and downwardly inclined position. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View as taken on line 33, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing the wire formed parts comprised in the foot rest. Fig. 5 is a artial plan and horizontal sectional view 0 parts to illustrate particular relations thereof as hereinafter explained. Fig. 6 is a partial vertical sectional view on line 66, the foot rest being shown in a substantially horizontal position.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the drawings, A represents the chair frame having below the seat a pair of opposed horizontal parallel ways a a, the same being represented as made in the form of tubes, understood as securely connected as parts of the frame and having their forward and rear ends open, and having their inner sides open as represented at a at the forward portions thereof.

B represents a frame on which the foot Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1910.

Serial No. 528,375.

rest- C is mounted, this frame being composed of wire having the middle portion Z) thereof of an inverted arch form, having eyes 11, 11, at the lower portions of the opposite members 10, 10, of such arch, and having extremities 12, 12, rearwardly extended as continuations of said eyes horizontally parallel and in opposition and slidably sup ported in the aforementioned ways a-.

The rest is sustained on a frame C composed of a single length of wire comprising a rectangular supporting top 15 and mem bers 16 depending from the intermediate portions of the opposite sides of said top,- these depending members being made of loop form whereby the eyes 17 are constituted so that pivotal connections, as by a pivot rod 18 engaging through the eyes 17 and 11 of the frames C and B may be made; or instead of one pivot rod extending from side to side, individual short pivots or rivets may be provided for connections through the pairs of eyes 17 and 11 which are adjacent each other.

The frames B and C are made of comparatively heavy spring wire, of a kind often termed furniture wire, and While having all suflicient rigidity to constitute adequate supports for the rest, are capable of a degree of yielding or deflection, as is an advantage.

The foot rest C, as manifest, may be positioned by sliding the frame B in the extent desired, as near to or as far forwardly beyond the front of a chair as desired, and the foot rest may be maintained in a horizontal position when the opposite side depending members 16 are approximately vertical; or the foot rest may be tilted forwardly and downwardly to be self-adjusting to any position in which the feet or legs of the person may be. Moreover, while the foot rest may tilt forwardly and downwardly, it may never be moved by swinging in a rearward direction so that the foot rest can pass beyond the horizontal position and then swing to a downward and rearward inclination, it being pointed out in this connection that when the foot rest is swung to a horizontal position, the members 16, 16, will have an abutment against the top 9 of the forward arch shaped portion of the frame B, which part constitutes a stop for limiting the movement of the foot rest in a rearward direction. When the foot rest is slid so that it has a position at the front of the chair, it may be tipped downwardly to a vertical position so as to constitute a closing front for the chair, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2.

The side openings a in the tubular supportin slicleways for the opposite side members o the frame, permit the frame B to be rearwardly slid without obstruction so that the foot rest may be accommodated in a horizontal position under the chair, or, when swung to its vertical position represented by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, have its disposition directly at the chair front.

I claim 1. In a foot rest chair, a chair frame having, below its seat, a pair of opposed horizontal parallel ways, a frame composed of wire, the middle portion of which is of an inverted arch form, having eyes at the lower portions of the opposite members of such arch and having the extremities of said wire rearwardly extended as continuations of said eyes horizontally and parallel in opposition and slidably supported in said ways, and a foot rest having opposite depending members,'provided with eyes at their lower portions, and arranged forward of the top member of the arch portion of the first named frame, and means for pivotally uniting the two frames through the eye provided portions thereof.

2. In a foot rest chair, a chair frame having below its seat a pair of opposed parallel horizontal ways, a frame composed of spring wire, the middle portion of which is of an inverted arch form, having eyes at the lower portions of the opposite members of such arch and having the extremities of said wire rearwardly extended as continuations of said eyes horizontally and parallel in opposition and slidably supported in said ways, and a foot rest frame composed of a single length of wire comprising a rectangular foot rest supporting top, and members depending from intermediate portions of the opposite sides of said rectangular top and having eyes at their bottoms, such eyes havin matching arrangements with the eyes of the first named frame, and means for pivotally uniting the two frames through the eye provided portions thereof.

3. In a foot rest chair, a chair frame having below its seat a pair of opposed parallel horizontal ways, a frame comprising a forward arch shaped portion and a pair of parallel horizontal bar-like members extending rearwardly from the lower parts of the depending members of said arch and slidably engaged in said ways, and a foot rest having at its opposite sides depending members located inside of the depending members of the arch and at their lower extremities pivotally connected to the first named frame, their upper extremities projecting above the transverse member of the arch so that the seat clears the latter and so that such trans verse member serves as a stop to the rearward swinging motion of the seat frame.

Signed by me at Greenfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AXEL K. OHRISTIANSEN. Witnesses:

ELLEN K. OKEEFE, ELIZABETH M. OKEEFE. 

